Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1887-08-18
NEWSY NOTES.

The Salem va. Comply mills are br rned.
The late Gen. Meade's maiden sis'er is
dead, aged so.
Baltimore has invited the President to
visit that city Scntember y.
Lulu Grim o. Cumberland county, n. c.,
has been fasting since June /.
The second adyentists held their annual
camp near Hanisonburg last week.
Worth, of Ps,is, is making Mrs. Ceve-
land some bril- winter toilettes.
Henry Winston's residence at Charleston
was burned yesterday week. His boy aged
7 persisted.
Horace Abbott of Baltimore is dead aged
81. Was founder of the celebrated Abbott
Iron Works.
J.F. Harrison, Jr, of Mobile, is chosen
adjunct professor of natural science at Ran
dolph Macon.
The rice plantations along the Savannah
river were overlooked last week. Damage
half a million.
To-day is the anniversary of the laying
of the corner stone OF the Capitol at Wash
ington in 1893
Capt L. L. Curtis, brother of Nine. Dem
crest, the New York fashion magazinist,
died at Staunton.
-Confederates attending the war chap
lains reunion at Ocean Grove called on Mrs.
Grant at Elberon.
Grants son Jesse was struck by lightning
at East Lynne, Connecticut, last week. His
leg severely injured.
The Wheeling Chamber of Commerce
hos invited the President and Mrs. Cleve-
land to visit that city.
Preston Johnston, col'd, is acquitted at
Stanton of completely in burning W. B..
Gloyer's barn last April.
Illinois has accepted from Robt. Lincoln
maintain it as a public Mecca.
The ten-day annual camp of the Shenan-
doah Valley Assembly, United Brethren at
Mt. Jackson, closes tomorrow.
A townsville Washington county couple
were spliced at the Hagerstown depot yes
terday week in just one minute-between
trains.
Mr. JnO. 7. Kerr has sold his interest in
the HarrSonburg Register to MeSsrs. Win
field Light, II. V. Strayer aud Jno. T..
Harris, Jr
| The Presidents trip next month will take
in the big cities as far west as Kansas City
and southwark to Misunderstanding Nash
Vile and Memphis.
Ben. Buffers niece, Mrs. DR.. J. II. Nc
Donnell, and her husband were found shot
in their Chicago hotel. Presumably suicide.
The wife may recover.
One hundred thousand pine acres on the
north border of Georgia and South Carolina
have been sold to Il New York and Pittsburg
syndicate for seven millions.
An eclipse of the sun o-morrow-l9th.
Invisible in the United States. Total only
along Il belt traversing the earth thro' Ger
many, Russia, China and Japan.
Seven hundred and fifty of the requisite
thousand shares have been subscribed in
the new Mineral railroad-connecting Stras-
burg with the West Virginia cal fields.
The Virginia Republican central commit
tee met ut Mahone's house in Petersburg
Tuesday night of last weeks present
Sat till 4. m. An address to the party
was decided on.
The President, Col Lamont, Senator
Kenna and Revenue Commissioner Miller
are booked (or-an early fishing trip to the
mountain brooks twenty miles from the
Greenbrier White.
Henry Clay's only remaining son, John,
aged g., farmer near Lexington, KY, fell
dead of heart disease. In '67 he married
the widow of his nephew, Col. Irwin (Con
Federated who was killed at Perryville.
Miss Caroline Hitch, New Orleans belle,
was married last week to Jokichi Takamine,
q japanese prince, merchant and director
general of the Japan patent office The
groom's gift to his bride was a wedding
dress Of silk embroidered by his country
women with chrysanthemums.